Summary: The Suicide Machine is real and it helps-in most cases. You watch as the Suicide Machine takes over your social networking profile and starts deleting friends, pictures, wall posts, etc. The goal of the Suicide Machine to let go of your social networking life, your on-line life-that life that is taking over your real life, and get you back to the real world and enjoying the real things in life! In this article Facebook is mentioned to have blocked the Suicide Machine from deleting profiles on Facebook. No need to fear, the creators of the Suicide Machine-which hail from the Netherlands, are already working on a way to get past Facebook's blockades to help those users who wish to delete their on-line profiles forever. That's the thing about the Suicide Machine, it's a "forever" kind of thing, so you have be sure you know what you're about to do before committing social network suicide.
Response: I do not have anything against social networking sites like Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. The only main thing that a lot of the time irritates me is that it takes up a lot of time, time that could be possibly put to better use instead of wasting it away by staring at a screen for about 2 hours. I love the fact that this is so contradicting to what our class is focusing on in regards to social media. Many will argue that Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites are not bad at all. Facebook and Myspace are sites that help you connect with other people across the world. Yes, while that may be true, it is also safe to say that these social networking sites are also having negative effects. If you look under Facebook Research, you'll find a couple of articles that discuss about privacy issues (mom and dad checking their kid's profile, job employers verifying that a future employee is not a person that posts drunk pictures on Facebook, etc.) as well as other issues (cyber sexual harassment, etc.).
Usefulness: I have seriously considered deleting my profile off social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. I have found it simply amazing how much of a hassle it is to delete a social profile in comparison to how fast it was activate and start up a social profile on a social network site. I am definitely going to incorporate this into my subject of inquiry. This could be of good use in my research memo, get a visual of how many people would be willing to use this "machine." Are you willing to use the Suicide Machine?
Summary: The article, Web 2.0 Suicide Machine Offs Your Online Identity, talks about how Web 2.0 Suicide Machine takes 52 minutes delete a social networking profile while if you were to delete the social networking profile yourself, it would take about 9 hours and 35 minutes. This article talks about how even if at one point Twitter or Facebook were a good idea because of so many people you would be to network with, but now you're tired of getting "poked" at and having to constantly updating your status just so friends don't start freaking out that something is wrong with you, it is perfectly okay to not want to have to deal with a social networking profile- which is where the Suicide Machine concept comes into play.
Response: This is an article that I was actually trying to find, an article with actual numbers (pie graphs, charts, etc.) In my opinion, I think that a reason behind the extensive amount of time it takes one to delete their social networking profile is to keep them from deleting it in the first place. I know for a fact that people would just be willing to keep their social networking profiles so they would not have to go through the whole process (I know I would not have the patience for it).
Usefulness: Clearly shows the actually amount of time it would take someone to commit social networking suicide in comparison to the amount of time it would take if you were using the Suicide Machine 2.0 to assist you in deleting you social networking profile. To date, 239, 721 friends have been unfriended and 394,278 tweets have been removed since launching the Suicide Machine. ( I found this information on the Suicide Machine main page).
Summary: The Suicide Machine is real and it helps-in most cases. You watch as the Suicide Machine takes over your social networking profile and starts deleting friends, pictures, wall posts, etc. The goal of the Suicide Machine to let go of your social networking life, your on-line life-that life that is taking over your real life, and get you back to the real world and enjoying the real things in life! In this article Facebook is mentioned to have blocked the Suicide Machine from deleting profiles on Facebook. No need to fear, the creators of the Suicide Machine-which hail from the Netherlands, are already working on a way to get past Facebook's blockades to help those users who wish to delete their on-line profiles forever. That's the thing about the Suicide Machine, it's a "forever" kind of thing, so you have be sure you know what you're about to do before committing social network suicide.
Response: I do not have anything against social networking sites like Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. The only main thing that a lot of the time irritates me is that it takes up a lot of time, time that could be possibly put to better use instead of wasting it away by staring at a screen for about 2 hours. I love the fact that this is so contradicting to what our class is focusing on in regards to social media. Many will argue that Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites are not bad at all. Facebook and Myspace are sites that help you connect with other people across the world. Yes, while that may be true, it is also safe to say that these social networking sites are also having negative effects. If you look under Facebook Research, you'll find a couple of articles that discuss about privacy issues (mom and dad checking their kid's profile, job employers verifying that a future employee is not a person that posts drunk pictures on Facebook, etc.) as well as other issues (cyber sexual harassment, etc.).
Usefulness: I have seriously considered deleting my profile off social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. I have found it simply amazing how much of a hassle it is to delete a social profile in comparison to how fast it was activate and start up a social profile on a social network site. I am definitely going to incorporate this into my subject of inquiry. This could be of good use in my research memo, get a visual of how many people would be willing to use this "machine." Are you willing to use the Suicide Machine?
http://www.diigo.com/09wn1
http://www.diigo.com/09wnr (the link to commit suicide-social suicide)
Author: Nallely Silvas Esquivel
Summary: The article, Web 2.0 Suicide Machine Offs Your Online Identity, talks about how Web 2.0 Suicide Machine takes 52 minutes delete a social networking profile while if you were to delete the social networking profile yourself, it would take about 9 hours and 35 minutes. This article talks about how even if at one point Twitter or Facebook were a good idea because of so many people you would be to network with, but now you're tired of getting "poked" at and having to constantly updating your status just so friends don't start freaking out that something is wrong with you, it is perfectly okay to not want to have to deal with a social networking profile- which is where the Suicide Machine concept comes into play.
Response: This is an article that I was actually trying to find, an article with actual numbers (pie graphs, charts, etc.) In my opinion, I think that a reason behind the extensive amount of time it takes one to delete their social networking profile is to keep them from deleting it in the first place. I know for a fact that people would just be willing to keep their social networking profiles so they would not have to go through the whole process (I know I would not have the patience for it).
Usefulness: Clearly shows the actually amount of time it would take someone to commit social networking suicide in comparison to the amount of time it would take if you were using the Suicide Machine 2.0 to assist you in deleting you social networking profile. To date, 239, 721 friends have been unfriended and 394,278 tweets have been removed since launching the Suicide Machine. ( I found this information on the Suicide Machine main page).
http://www.diigo.com/09wnz